Opis: Family Health Psychology - T Akamatsu

This volume is the result of the 1991 Third Annual Kent Psychology Forum and it investigates the ways families affect and are affected by health and illness. The text is divided into three sections, the first discussing family perspectives on prevention of illness, family health beliefs and family dynamcis as they relate to the maintenance of health. Part two focuses on family reactions to illness and successful and unsuccessful patterns of response. Various perspectives on the involvement of families in the treatment of illness are presented. Lastly, part three focuses on professional intervention in family grief. It is aimed at practising psychiatrists, psychologists, medical sociologists, social workers, health professionals and nurses dealing with family medicine and therapy plus graduate level teachers, students and practising trainees from other fields.Family health psychology - an introduction and overview. Part 1 Families and prevention: health cognitions in families; the role of families in the prevention of physical and mental health problems; preventive intervention and family coping with a child's life - threatening or terminal illness. Part 2 Family systems, social ecology and chronic pediatric illness - conceptual, methodological and intervention issues: couples coping with chronic and catastrophic illness; physical and psychological illness as correlates of marital disruption. Part 3 Families and intervention: integrating theroy and practice in psychological intervention with families of children with a chronic illness; family systems medicine - new opportunities for psychologists; family therapy in the context of AIDS.

Szczegóły: Family Health Psychology - T Akamatsu

Tytuł: Family Health Psychology
Autor: T Akamatsu
Producent: Taylor
ISBN: 9781560322474
Rok produkcji: 1992
Ilość stron: 240
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.45 kg

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